Stinger stops car driving wrong way down the M25

Police used a stinger device to stop a car which had been speeding the wrong
way down a carriageway on Britain's busiest motorway.

4:26PM BST 02 Jun 2012

Surrey police said the black Vauxhall Astra joined the M25 after failing to stop for officers on the A22 in Godstone, Surrey, in the early hours of Saturday morning.

It went along a slip road and on to the M25 at junction six, travelling along the hard shoulder in the opposite direction to traffic.

As the car headed east, police followed it on the correct side of the road. After a pursuit of around 14 miles, the car was brought to a halt on the M26 in Kent by officers using a stinger - a device which punctures a car's tyres, forcing it to stop.

A Surrey Police spokesman said: "It continued travelling in the opposite direction to traffic on the hard shoulder while police units followed from the other side.

"The vehicle was subject to a stinger activation and was eventually brought to a halt on the M26 in Kent where the occupants decamped."